Pamela Druckerman is living in France and wrote this for the New York Times about the current state of French comedy.
I watched French comics dabble in self-mockery, then switch back to mocking others. Often these attacks aren’t politically correct. At one show, two comedians in a row made fun of dwarves (one joke involved using a Smart car as a hearse). A comic with Chinese roots got a big laugh with his line about the Holocaust: “Six million?” he asks. “In China, that’s a bus accident.”
